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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15 



siding at a large picnic gathering, where speaking 

 was going on, when some ladies appealed to me to 

 relieve them fiom just such an annoyance. I have 

 had to do this unpleasant duty over and over again. 

 Can people acquire the tobacco habit, and preserve 

 their gentlemanly instinct, all unimpaired? 



There is one special point in the above that 

 is worth noting. In any contest requiring 

 the fullest development, both of nerves and 

 muscles, and especially alertness as well as 

 strength, the young man who does not use 

 tobacco will, as a rule, come out ahead; ex- 

 pert cyclists learned this a long time ago ; and 

 in every department of busintss where a clear 

 head and a cool ripe judgment are required, 

 the boy or man who lets stimulants alone has 

 the advantage. Long live the Home Circle in 

 the Americmi Bee Journal ; and may Prof. 

 Cook be spared for many years to conduct it. 



TRAP LANTERNS, ETC.— SEE PAGE 566, JULY 1. 



A communicatiun from Prof. J. M. Sledman, 

 Entomologist at the Experiment Station, Co- 

 lumbia, Mo., is just at hand, severely criticis- 

 ing Mr. Haseltine, the inventor of the trap 

 lantern, for his unfair way of using Mr. Sted- 

 man's name to push his invention. We have 

 not room here for giving the whole paper, but 

 we make the following extracts from special 

 newspaper bulletin No. 16, June 26 : 



It should be distinctly understood that the moth- 

 catchers can not in any sense of the word take the 

 place of sprays, in a general way. While the moth- 

 catcher is a good thing for certain very restricted in- 

 sects at a certain very restricted time in the proper 

 season of the year, and while it is true that sprays are 

 to a certain extent unsatisfactory for certain insects, 

 yet, on the whole, the spray may be relied upon, even 

 though used by inexperienced persons; while the 

 moth -catcher can not be relied upon without a 

 thorough knowledge of the exact time it should be 

 used for each special case. 



We can say that the moth-catcher is the best thing 

 that can be used in large fields for the corn-worm 

 moth, for the fruit-leaf roller, for the pickle-worm 

 moth, and for the June or May beetle. Let it be def- 

 initely understood, then, that we recommend the 

 moth catcher for no other insects than those named ; 

 and that for the tent caterpillar, the army-worm, and 

 the cut-worm, there are other methods of fighting 

 these insects that are much better. 



Taken as a whole, then, the use of moth-catchers 

 by the general public will do more harm than good. 

 J. M. Stedman, 

 Entomologist of the Experiment Station, 

 Columbia, Mo. 



June 26. 



Permit me to add further that we have pur- 

 chased one of the largest-sized Haseltine 

 moth -traps. The price is excessive, and there 

 is no reason in the world why any one (if he 

 wants to) should not use a lamp over a tub of 

 water, with pieces of tin or cheap looking- 

 glasses arranged so the insects will bump 

 against the mirrors and fall into the water. 



GETTING MONEY IN SOME EASIER AND 

 QUICKER WAY THAN BY DAILY TOIL. 



I have long been thinking of saying some- 

 thing about this matter ; but the Philadel- 

 phia Farm Journal has said so much better 

 exactly what I would say, I take the liberty of 

 copying the following. The italics are mine : 



Now, what shall we say about the great Wall Street 

 stock gamble, which culminated in May in one of the 

 greatest shearing of the innocent lambs that has ever 



taken place : Tens of thousands of people all over 

 the country were drawn into the mtelstrom of specu- 

 lation, and most of them lost money. A few won 

 more than they lost. These we hear of; but of the 

 many that lost, little is said. They keep quiet about 

 it, though sooner or later the bankrupt court will 

 know what has happened. If people who are tempt- 

 ed to speculate only knew that, whether they win or 

 lose in the gamble, they receive injury beyond repair, 

 they would not engage in it. If they lose, that is the 

 loss only of money, which is not so bad ; but if they 

 win. their character is likely so suffer. It is bad to lose, 

 but it is worse to zvin; for to win means that, ever after, 

 they will be templed to gel gain by games of chance. 

 Money won by any kind of gamble is not going to be 

 of any benefit. It will not last. Sooner or later an- 

 other venture will sweep all away. We pity the poor 

 lamb that is shorn, but the shearer is worse off or will 

 be finally. Money should be honestly earned to do 

 anybddy any good. And it is best to come slowly, 

 little by little, day by day, and should fairly represent 

 the patience, honesty, and toil of the individual and 

 not the lucky chance of an hour. 



A minister wisely says : " The evils of drink are fa- 

 miliar to you. There are ether evils. But the great- 

 est peril is the insane spirit of gambling which seems 

 to have taken hold of the people, irrespective of 

 social standing or religious belief. The insane desire 

 to get rich quickly is at the bottom of it all. There is 

 no difference between the newsboy who flips coins 

 and the man in Wall Street who buys .stocks on mar- 

 gins c n a chance that they will rise or fall. Both 

 wish to get something for nothing: both are gamblers. 



" From the tinv lad selling newspapers on the street 

 to the men dwelling in a palace, the gambling spirit 

 seems to have invaded all. Where is this thing going 

 to end? " 



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5PEClAb^N0T,icES Bv 



BUSINESSJVIANAGER 



HONEY-CANS. 



We are supplying a good many 60-lb. cans, two in a 

 case. Since our last report v»e have received another 

 carload of these cans, so that we are prepared with 

 neatly two carloads, which we are selling at prices 

 listed in our catalog— $7 .50 for 10 boxes. Most of 

 those handling our goods by the carload are supplied 

 with these cans also. At the rate we have been ship- 

 ping them for the past two weeks our stock will not 

 last more than two months, and we can not guaran- 

 tee these prices beyond our present supply of stock. 

 We can not replace it from the Can Trust, and come 

 out even, at present prices. If in need of cans, send 

 in your orders while the supply lasts. 



BUSHEL BOXES AND CRATES. 



Because of changes in some of our manufacturing 

 processes the slats used in our slatted and all-slatted 

 bushel boxes are a little wider and thicker than for- 

 merly, so that we are not able to pack 13 K. D. boxes 

 inside of two nailed up, as we have done heretofore ; 

 but we can pack 12 inside, making 14 complete boxes, 

 with nails, in a crate of the all-slatted kind, and Vi 

 each of the slatted or galvanized bound. We have 

 also revised our prices on boxes to the following : 



All slatted, per crate of 14, 81.90. 



Slatted, tight ends, per crate of VI, 81.65. 



Galvanized bound, per crate of 12, |2 25. 



This is a slight reduction on prices ruling the past 

 two 3'ears. The.-e prices are subject to a discount of 5 

 per cent in lots of 10 crates or more. 



NO. 2 SECTIONS FOR FALL HONEY. 



Those who produce amber or dark grades of comb 

 honey should use No. 2 grade of sections in order to 

 have the wood of the section more in harmony with 

 its contents. In fact, the whitest grades of honey 

 will make just as good appearance in the most of our 

 No. 2 grade sect ons as they will in No. 1. Don't be 

 afraid to try the No. 2 grade. You can save money by 

 using them. They cost 50 cts. per 1000 less than No. 1, 

 and, as containers of honey, are just as good. Some 

 people have a prejudice against No. 2 sections becau e 

 they think the color of the wood, being a little dark- 

 er, must be nearer the heart of the tree, and therefore 

 is more brittle or brash. This is an entirely mistaken 



